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Ranked from NOAA 1991-2020 Climate Normals

Driest Counties in Wyoming

The least rainfall in the country. Dry is easier on a building than wet, but it moves the cost somewhere else: irrigation, foundation movement in shrink-swell soils, and in the driest counties the price and reliability of water itself. Figures are NOAA 1991-2020 Climate Normals from the weather station nearest each county seat, so they describe a thirty-year average rather than any single year.

Where does yours land? Every county in America is somewhere on this scale, including the one you live in.

Wyoming ranked

#County Annual rainfallFEMA risk ratingMedian home
1 Big Horn County 5.5"Very Low$198,200
2 Sweetwater County 7.5"Very Low$242,900
3 Lincoln County 7.7"Relatively Low$334,500
4 Washakie County 7.7"Very Low$188,600
5 Fremont County 8.6"Relatively Low$252,700
6 Carbon County 9.0"Very Low$214,500
7 Park County 10.3"Relatively Low$374,200
8 Albany County 10.5"Relatively Low$322,100
9 Uinta County 11.0"Very Low$255,400
10 Converse County 11.2"Very Low$269,700
11 Sublette County 11.9"Very Low$350,100
12 Hot Springs County 11.9"Very Low$214,400
13 Natrona County 12.2"Relatively Low$260,400
14 Johnson County 13.4"Very Low$296,000
15 Campbell County 13.6"Relatively Low$266,400
16 Platte County 14.1"Very Low$248,900
17 Niobrara County 14.3"Very Low$194,200
18 Goshen County 14.8"Very Low$234,600
19 Sheridan County 14.9"Relatively Low$352,200
20 Laramie County 15.4"Relatively Low$324,900
21 Crook County 29.2"Very Low$276,800
22 Weston County 29.2"Very Low$214,000
23 Teton County 32.8"Relatively Low$1,371,900

Every figure is modelled on the county's own median home with 20% down at 7.03%. Property tax and electricity are county and state specific; homeowners insurance uses the NAIC average premium for that state, which ranges from 0.16% of home value in Hawaii to 1.16% in Oklahoma. Maintenance and water are national estimates. Full methodology.

Nationwide

Driest Counties across all 3,133 US counties · Every county in Wyoming

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